Chaozhou City

CCTV.COM (04.28 2003 15:40)

    Chaozhou City is situated in the east of Guangdong, the middle lower reach of Hanjiang River錛The area is 3,613錛 square kilometers, of which the land area is 3,080錛 square kilometers, sea area 533 square kilometers, with a coastal line of 136 kilometers錛

    Chaozhou is a famous homeland of overseas Chinese, which numbered over 2錛0 million including compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan錛

    Chaozhou is a famous historical and cultural city in the country, with over 700 relic spots錛Among which are Guangji Bridge, built in the South Song Dynasty (1171 A錛嶥錛 and Xu, Imperial Son-in-law, Mansion, which retains the basic pattern of the architecture of the Song Dynasty錛Kaiyuan Temple, a Buddhist center in East Guangdong, embodied with the quintessence of the architectural art of various dynasties such as the Tang, the Song, the Yuan and the Qing, Huang Konglue Temple, displaying the carving art of Chaozhou in the Qing Dynasty, and the old site of Song Kiln, that shows the scale of production and the exquisite craftsmanship of ceramic in ancient Chaozhou錛They are the key units for cultural protection at the state level錛

    Jiadixiang, the ancient family houses; the Ming city wall, 2錛 kilometers long; Chaozhou dialect, Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou Kungfu tea, and etc錛all have unique features of Chaozhou culture, attracting numerous tourists from home and abroad, and are the richly endowed tourist resources錛

Editor:Han Ling